It would be infuriating that Natasha Lyonne hasn’t fronted a major fashion campaign yet, except the one she finally landed is just so good. As the new face of COS, the actress / director / producer stares down a camera lensed by Mario Sorrenti and styled by Camilla Nickerson. In the images, Lyonne wears a…
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Kathryn Wirsing In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month we spoke with Aya Kanai, whose passion for visual art has taken her from the world of puppet theater to high-rise offices at some of the…
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Fred Franzia, the iconoclastic businessman who turned the wine industry on its head with his inexpensive Charles Shaw label, better known as Two-Buck Chuck, died on Tuesday at his home in Denair, Calif. He was 79. His company, Bronco Wine, announced the death in a statement. Neither the statement nor Mr. Franzia’s family gave the…
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“Dramatic” and “absurd” were the words Natasha Hunt Lee, a 25-year-old musician in Los Angeles, had in mind while booking three D.J.s, a tattoo artist and a Disney princess bouncy castle for her album-release party this month. Also integral to her planning process was one not-quite-a-word: Partiful. It’s the name of a new event-invitation service…
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There was a storm here over the weekend — rumbles of thunder and thick, gray skies, a soaking wet garden in the morning. It’s cooled down a little too, and all I want now is soft and cozy food. You know, stews packed with beans and greens, dumplings and noodles in hot broths, all kinds…
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It’s never too early for soup season. Whether you’re enjoying some crisp autumn air or you’re just cranking up the air conditioning and wearing a sweater as a form of cosplay, fall is nigh. It officially begins on Sept. 22. If you want to swap out a few of those quick weeknight salads for some…
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New York Fashion Week ended, much as it had begun, with a blinding dose of déjà vu. “I feel like I’m in a time machine,” said a guest, lounging on one of the white banquettes at the Tom Ford show, ogling Madonna in black satin. The show was being held downtown on Vesey Street, but…
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By Kaela Myers It may be fashion week, but you won’t find the collection Christopher John Rogers launched yesterday on any runway. Instead, the designer has lent his eye for color and print to Orior, the Irish design studio and furniture manufacturer. “I’ve always loved creating work that toes the line between ostentatious and pragmatic,”…
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Christopher Horne Lori Harvey isn’t a regular model, she’s a cool model. Case in point: the budding entrepreneur eats French toast while getting glammed up for a fashion show. “I will always make time for a quick bite before getting dressed,” she says. It’s a refreshing thing to hear during New York Fashion Week, when…
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It Bags were over in 2008, or so declared trend pieces in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. In the face of the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the very notion of those symbols of turn-of-the-century conspicuous consumption—the Fendi Baguettes, the Chloé Paddingtons, the Dior Saddles, and many others that cost…
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